I’m vaccinated and have had 3 boosters. I have covid right now. I guess I must be one of those anecdotal anomalies that don’t count when people like you babble platitudes like “the vaccine prevents getting covid - that’s exactly what it does”. Because if the vaccine - and a bunch of booster - prevented getting covid, I wouldn’t have covid right now, would I? Can you explain it to me like I’m a child? Or pretend I’m stupid, and use small words: of the vaccine prevents covid, how do I have covid? |
It reduces the likelihood of getting covid, and if you do get covid, it's supposed to make it less severe. also, i believe, we don't have a vaccine yet for the variant that is now going around. https://medcom.uiowa.edu/theloop/in-the-spotlight/why-vaccinated-people-still-get-sick-with-covid-19 https://www.healthpartners.com/blog/covid-19-breakthrough-case-after-vaccination/ https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/stats/vbt.html etc |
Public health policy cannot treat every individual as if they are a special snowflake. Policy has to address the odds on a population level. Mandate vaccines and x people will still die/suffer seriously from COVID or have a negative reaction to the vaccine versus don't mandate vaccines and 50x people will die/suffer seriously from COVID, then the mandate is an easy call. Even if there is still some damage with mandates in place. |
DP Every single person I know who got vaccinated, also got covid, with symptoms. I also know a handful of people who’ve never been vaccinated, and two of them have never had it, or at least were totally asymptomatic. I just SMH at these people who are still carrying the torch for the vaccines. Give it up. You sound like a cultist. It definitely DOES NOT reduce the likelihood of getting it. It MIGHT reduce symptoms and severe cases with long term complications and death. Maybe. But that’s literally the BEST it can do. You’re still 100% getting covid, vaxxed or not. |
Sure, because no vaccine is effective for 100% of people. It is near 100% at reducing viral load and shortening/lessening symptoms. But vaccines have a range of efficacy. The COVID shot is like the flu shot in that respect. |
This is gibberish. The COVID vaccine doesn’t reduce the chance of getting COVID and for that claim you post the above anecdotes? GTFO. Your schooling failed you. |
People that get the vaccine tend to resume a normal life and experience greater exposure. |
I would assume that most people are like me. I rushed out to get vaccinated as soon as I could. I got my two shots and a booster. I've had COVID twice since then, once last summer and once this summer. I'm done with COVID vaccines and masks. Call me an anti-vaxer if you want, but I was never at high risk from COVID, I got my vaccinations and still got it. What was the point. |
You're alive. That was the point. |
Personal experience is personal experience. Covid was NBD for me. My cousin died of a reaction to the yellow fever vaccine. |